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Mayors’ gun-control group to run Super Bowl ad pushing for background checks
The ad, titled “It’s Time” opens with images of children, while “America the Beautiful” plays in the background. “The NRA once supported background checks,” a child’s voice says.
The ad then features footage of National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre testifying before Congress in 1999.
“We think it’s reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show, no loopholes anywhere for anyone,” LaPierre says in the excerpted clip.
“America can do this for us, please,” the narrator concludes.
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Nobody wants to see this crap on Superbowl Sunday. Sheesh!
Blake on February 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM
The bastards have no shame. They couldn’t care less about children.
They’ll use children to push their gun confiscation while hundreds of thousands of children are slaughtered every month for birth control and convenience.
This ad will backfire spectacularly.
darwin on February 3, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Gun control add from mayors: good.
Taco Bell ad for tacos: bad.
Beam me up Scotty!
Amendment X on February 3, 2013 at 3:06 PM
On the issue of the super bowl, bho(I won) tweets a photo of ‘guess who’ for the super bowl? Gads bho make me want to throw up, he has to get his skinny rear into everything!
http://twitchy.com/2013/02/03/on-super-bowl-sunday-obama-tweets-photo-of-guess-who/
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letget on February 3, 2013 at 3:12 PM
ForUse the children.JimLennon on February 3, 2013 at 3:14 PM
Nanny-state a$$holes never live you alone.
Dusty on February 3, 2013 at 3:15 PM
I have been less than enthusiastic about watching the Super Bowl for years now. Who needs this crap? I bet Bloomberg paid for the Newtown kids to be transported there for halftime too. When did football become taken over by effete bedwetters and baby daddy street culture? What a horrible festering mix this is.
juliesa on February 3, 2013 at 3:19 PM
Did CBS give the group a bargain price for the ad? Because that’s a heckuva lot of dough to run an ad otherwise.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on February 3, 2013 at 3:22 PM
May tyranny strike Bloomberg, the Obamas and all who brung them.
Schadenfreude on February 3, 2013 at 3:25 PM
They call themselves Mayors Against illegal Guns.
What they don’t tell you is that they want to make all guns illegal.
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:25 PM
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2013/02/mayors-against-illegal-guns-supposed.html
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:25 PM
Bloomberg has boasted that he has a lot of money to do this.
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Bammy’s Got A Gun! (Pics)
M2RB: Aerosmith
Resist We Much on February 3, 2013 at 3:31 PM
THIS x1000
cmsinaz on February 3, 2013 at 3:31 PM
Even after he’s given $1.1 billion with a B to Johns Hopkins? Wow.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on February 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM
Using children to symbolize the pile of dead children they’re standing on. Disgusting. And during the Super Bowl no less, as if we needed more non-football bullcrap to ruin the game. Take your compromise and shove it.
RadClown on February 3, 2013 at 3:35 PM
Resist We Much on February 3, 2013 at 3:31 PM
Heh, great, and fab. updates too
Schadenfreude on February 3, 2013 at 3:35 PM
This needs to go viral. I sent it to the Hotair editors but they haven’t posted it yet. Awesome video.
jawkneemusic on February 3, 2013 at 3:36 PM
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/02/mayors-reportedly-preparing-boycott-of-gun-manufacturers/
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Also, the kids from Sandy Hook will be singing the anthem. This is not good. Total politics USING children to deliver a message.
PattyJ on February 3, 2013 at 3:47 PM
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davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:48 PM
More Nanny Bloomberg: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/02/unbelievable-bloomberg-secretly.html
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM
‘The Wrong Girl:’ A more appropriate Super Bowl commercial concerning firearms.
locomotivebreath1901 on February 3, 2013 at 3:56 PM
More on Bloomberg…
Survivor: Detroit
M2RB: Gloria Gaynor
Resist We Much on February 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM
I like this idea.
jawkneemusic on February 3, 2013 at 4:06 PM
Could they sing “We are the world” as well. One of my all time favorites. “Janie’s got a gun” probably not in their repetory.
arnold ziffel on February 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM
Oh OK. Abort them. Don’t shoot them. Got it. Pass the wings.
Ronnie on February 3, 2013 at 4:15 PM
We should have a contest to see who can change the channel the fastest.
Cindy Munford on February 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM
I think they are singing “America the Beautiful”. And while I don’t have a real problem with it, I do wonder the message being sent. I would love to hear these children say why they were invited. I know that the country wants to support them, but is that what they think is happening?
Cindy Munford on February 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM
Is it safe to assume that no public money went into this ad? Maybe it was all Bloomberg and Soros money?
petefrt on February 3, 2013 at 4:26 PM
I have already told hubby about this ad. I don’t watch football but he does and hopefully he will mute this ad!
Wonder if bho will have his face someplace during the game? bho just can’t keep his nose out of anything it seems.
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letget on February 3, 2013 at 4:29 PM
It’s really sad and pathetic that the anti-gun nuts continue to stand on the graves of the Sandy Hook victims, now they will use the living victims as well. Ghoulish at best. How can the parents of these kids allow them to be exploited this way?
Sickening really. I hate that the NFL is allowing this to happen, and throw in CBS and the anti-gun Governors ad as well.
D-fusit on February 3, 2013 at 4:29 PM
I agree Cindy. This must be very confusing for the kids. All your friends were killed so you get to be famous!
PattyJ on February 3, 2013 at 4:34 PM
I would have been OK with that ad ending with the punk being zipped into a body bag.
CurtZHP on February 3, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Obysmal will be interviewed as part of the pre-game show, too.
He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!
onlineanalyst on February 3, 2013 at 4:56 PM
I figure the parents are getting professional advice on how to handle this.
Cindy Munford on February 3, 2013 at 4:58 PM
It’s on now. I’m so sick of that man’s face and voice.
Cindy Munford on February 3, 2013 at 4:58 PM
Ads are sooo last century!
OldEnglish on February 3, 2013 at 5:01 PM
Obysmal will be interviewed as part of the pre-game show, too.
He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!
onlineanalyst on February 3, 2013 at 4:56 PM
jawkneemusic on February 3, 2013 at 5:10 PM
Mao would be jealous.
Myron Falwell on February 3, 2013 at 5:27 PM
It will all end badly in the end. It just will. There’s nothing to stop it.
Myron Falwell on February 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Turn the TV off then, moron.
lostmotherland on February 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM
Only us–and the 2nd Amendment.
davidk on February 3, 2013 at 6:05 PM
Does your hairy palm have a tattoo of Obama on it or is that mom’s back?
arnold ziffel on February 3, 2013 at 6:18 PM